Why Skip Soy Ingredients in Skin Care?

Skip Soy – Not All It’s Cracked Up to Be – Especially if You Are Preggo

We talk a lot about not using face and body care products containing ingredients that could inadvertently poison your baby (e.g. Accutane). Today we want to bring in another level of awareness – that which may not harm baby, but is not doing your skin any favors nevertheless. Do yourself a huge favor and skip soy based ingredients in your skin care products while you are pregnant.

Soy is considered by many to be a more natural “organic” ingredient. While we understand this attraction to skin products containing soy-derived ingredients – soy can have undesirable effects on your skin. Some experts claim soy is safe or no harm to your baby. Even so, we do not recommend it.

Soy-based lotions and facial products are generally safe to use, however can have a worsening effect on the infamous “mask of pregnancy” (melasma). The mask manifests as dark splotches on your face, especially around your cheeks and nose and is quite common.

Soy’s Estrogenic Effects

Soy has estrogenic effects, which means it mimics your body’s already exploding production of estrogen. It can act as a catalyst to darken unwanted patches on your face and body, also known as melasma or chloasma. Editor’s Note: Some products lines contain ‘active soy’. This just means the estrogenic components are taken out of the compound. If you are not allergic to soy, the ingredient active soy is probably okay.

Currently a nice array of pregnancy safe skin care products exists on the market so you have choices. We recommend choosing skin care products free of soy while pregnant – skip Soy. It does not seem worth the risk of having dark splotches on your face when there are ways to avoid it.

Dark Under Eye Circles? Exacerbates Your Melasma? No Thanks!

By choosing to pass on soy based ingredients in your skin care, you reduce the odds of making dark circles on your face worse.

You can learn about what ingredients are healthy for you while pregnant by visiting Amalou Skin’s pregnancy safe Ingredients page. Each ingredient included in this line of pregnancy safe skin care products was carefully selected. The company only include all-natural, non-toxic, green ingredients in their product line. Their goal is to give expecting mothers and beyond a skin care regimen they can trust. So even if you skip soy, you still have excellent, possibly even much better, options!

We wish you a happy and healthy pregnancy!

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